Apartment model

ActiveX dll can run in a different appartment (read as thread). The problem you have is that your client application makes a call to the dll and waits until the dll has completed execution. I don,t think there's a real workaround in vb to do this, but you can search the board for multithreading, if that is what you need.

Tom Cannaerts
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